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The “Glo” of Advertising

28 January 2014 emmaclement Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.   The Day-Glo Designer’s Guide offers insights into the way that Day-Glo colors have been used in both art and advertising. Although Day-Glo is common today, the process wasn’t discovered until 1934 by Robert and Joseph Spitzer. While Read More

Alice’s Alice

21 January 2014 houghtonmodern Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. This recently-cataloged volume from the Santo Domingo Collection appears to be an unexceptional 1932 printing of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland: the book’s illustrated covers have faded, and its acidic paper stock has gone from white to tan. Read More

I need that like I need a hole in the head! Oh wait…..

14 January 2014 adharris Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Trephination is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the membrane that surrounds the skull in order to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases.  Often referred to as a Read More

Snow vogue

10 January 2014 houghtonmodern Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The depredations of the drug trade are fertile ground for crime and mystery fiction: pulp, in a word. In the Santo Domingo Collection, these lurid works stand on the shelves alongside opium-inspired poetry and countercultural acid narratives. Pictured Read More

Toy Theatre

9 January 2014 denby Uncategorized

pfMS Thr 969 (3) Germany, late 19th-century Reassembled briefly prior to permanent storage by Patrick McAndrews, Graduate Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Advanced Studies Program. Music provided by Clip Art audio. Enjoy the show. Submitted by Vicki Denby, Curatorial Assistant.          

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